Noel Coward Estate

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Welcome to Wikipedia. I saw that you edited or created Noël Coward, and I noticed that your username, "Noel Coward Estate", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, service, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Foobar Museum of Art". However, you are permitted to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you individually (not your role), such as "Sara Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87", but not "SEO Manager at XYZ Company".

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February 2022

Hello. I wanted to let you know that in your recent contributions to Noël Coward, you seemed to act as if you were the owner of the page. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to Wikipedia. This means that editors do not own articles, including ones they create, and should respect the work of their fellow contributors. If you create or edit an article, remember that others are free to change its content. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Drm310 🍁 (talk) 17:38, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

February 2022

Your account has been indefinitely blocked from editing because of the following problems: the account has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia, and your username indicates that the account represents a business, organisation, group, or web site, which is against the username policy.

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• Disclose any compensation you may receive for your contributions in accordance with the Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure requirement.
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Please read and understand Ownership and Conflict of interest and Paid contributions disclosure before requesting an unblock. Cullen328 (talk) 18:23, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

How Wikipedia works

I am sorry our rules on editing by parties with a vested interest have led to a ban on editing by the estate, but in addition to matters of our policy and practices mentioned above, it may be useful for the contributor to understand that in Wikipedia articles the introduction in the lead is intended to summarise the main points of the article. Although Coward was certainly a novelist, painter etc those activities are not what he is chiefly known for, and though he was all of them and also a pianist, intelligence officer, tax exile, and numerous other things, he is known principally as a playwright, composer, director, actor and singer. – Tim riley talk 21:12, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

To expand upon this point, Wikipedia articles are simply paraphrased summaries of existing material previously published in reliable, independent sources. All content must be verifiable by a reliable source; this heavily favours mainstream news organizations, academic press and reputable publishers of books, magazines and newspapers. Primary sources like the article subject's official website can be used in limited circumstances. Self-published sources with no editorial oversight are almost always rejected - this includes social media sites, blogs and message forums. Wikipedia also rejects any original research (unpublished personal knowledge or experience, or a synthesis of published material). If content cannot be verified by a reliable source, then it simply cannot exist on Wikipedia. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 06:30, 4 February 2022 (UTC)